3 days a week? How would I know it's the weekend? I might end up going out for Sunday Brunch on Tuesday...I might clean house on Thursday (though that could be an advantage, giving me the entire weekend free of chores)...I might forget to watch my Tuesday night TV shows...and my Thursday night shows...I might send out for pizza Tuesday AND Thursday in addition to Saturday and Sunday and, as a consequence, gain a million pounds, have to get a new wardrobe and take cholesterol and diabetes medication, get discouraged and stop exercising, and DIE AN EARLY DEATH! And be unable to comment! Quelle horreurs!

Yes, they ARE selling candies in some of Paris' best petisseries and they are 'regionally-made' candies. Not even made in the shops.That's how in love with the candies of their childhood French people are.Quite interesting really...

Mais non! How else can I continue my Paris dreams on a daily basis? Repetto, macarons, Laduree! Visions of these dance in my head like sugarplums. Your blog may be the closest I get to Paris for a very long time. Whenever my husband bakes macarons I always think of you. Merci and please keep posting!

His favorite recipe is David Leibowitz's. Anytime you come to Maryland please come for le gouter. I think the spelling is correct.) Love your blog. Ne jamias de trop pas!! (Must go to Paris to to improve my French.)

One has to set some limitsI don't know how YOU do weekends but then you don't do 14-picture posts...it really isn't a lot of work and it's mostly fun when Blogger isn't acting glitchy on meIn Paris I do Saturdays sometimes...

Please Carol, I know I'm being selfish. But keep the 5 days schedule. Your's & Habitually Chic are my everyday windows to beauty. Living in Argentina and with fewer chances to travel day after day, you are a much expected joy. I still hope someday I'll be able to visit Paris again. So, I keep every post. Perhaps I'll have the chance to meet you. Thank you!!!! And bonne chance!!!!!

I have just one thing to say: One can never have too many Fraises Tagada - or Carambars caramel bars and ours en guimauve (marshmallow bears) - for that matter. My French childhood would not have been the same without them! :-) Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)

I really enjoy reading your blog 5 days a week and dreaming of returning to Paris. But if you need to cut back to 3 then do so. Or just take a break and post reruns (reblogs?)? Anyway, please keep blogging, either 3 or 5 days a week.

Well, I really prefer the 5 days a week way, but I can understand if you need to blog only 3 days...I just hope that it´s not for too long. I really love your posts. It´s up to you. We' ll never stop coming here, over and over again. Kisses from Brazil, darling ;)

Always love your posts and would miss them if they went shorter. It is a lot of work to keep these up but you would be missed. I keep looking at that last photo of the red shoes and bag with the blue and green outfit. To much or striking?? My eye keeps going to it. Interesting.

Thank you Sally,I'm glad I asked.I reading Michael Hyatt's post today, Why I Will Be Posting Less and started wondering...I think I'm as addicted to posting every morning as PBers are to reading PB : )I do like my free weekends and National holidays though, ahem

Please don't even think about reducing your posts to 3 days/week.Five days is definitely not de trop, and as a matter of fact, 7 days/week would be parfait (although it would probably be too much for youto handle!)

The absolute highlight of each day is finding your e-mail in myinbox. They never fail to delight. Please keep up the current 5 dayschedule!With warm wishes,Bev

" Paris Breakfast " will never be too much, never de trop!You make us travel with you, see Paris through your eyes.I've just picked my red bag to go out now.And tomorrow? Please, let me know!Please, 5 days a week!

I would certainly miss the 2 missing days..But I get how 5 days a week is more than a sport!:)Love your blog..would miss the 2 days..I people watched in MTL today and thought of you snapping pics of them.in you case the old adage Less Is Best..does not apply.

Dear Carol, I'll read as much as you send me. And love it! My vote is for 5 days or more!? You add colour and fun to my day ... and you seem to have just the right amount of colour and fun in each blog. Very clever .... I just LOVE receiving it. xxx

HI I have been following for a while, which was a bounce from Mary Kay's site. I look forward to your blog to get my daily dose of great design. I would probably still view the page every day even if it was only published 3 days a week. You get my vote for 5 days if you need encouraging :-)

HI I have been following for a while, which was a bounce from Mary Kay's site. I look forward to your blog to get my daily dose of great design. I would probably still view the page every day even if it was only published 3 days a week. You get my vote for 5 days if you need encouraging :-)

CarolI would miss your posts daily but at the same time if it is just de trop pour vous I would understand three days. You have so much material I cannot imagine you ever running out. C'est votre choix. My French is not perfect either!

Carol, perhaps it is because I have myself recently declared a four-day week for my public self, and am enjoying that three-day per week private time, but. Why not give that a go.

If what your are living, enjoying and want to share (and can find the time) requires that fifth day...enjoy that bonus post.

Your posts from either side of the wide Atlantic are so full of joy, information, sense of place and introduction to new places, people, things and sensations, I think that it is the quality that matters.

I would miss you ... but if you're looking for a sampling of practical answers, there are many days I don't have time to look at your posts, but I do go back and then enjoy checking out the ones that I've missed.

LOVE your posts and since I subscribe to many blogs, I don't really notice how MANY times per week you post. My only comment would be this...if you have to send more than 7 or 8 pics, separate it into 2 posts. My email gets bogged down with the blogs that have tons of pics, especially when viewing on a tablet device. And when these blogs post 10 pics of the same scene from different angles, well, it makes me want to unsubscribe!! Just sayin'...thx for asking!

I really must try Haribo Tagada. Sadly I wasn't aware of them when I was last in France in 2010- but next year I'll be searching them out. Still the fresh strawberry pastries win hands down. And now I want to buy red flats too. And as for the frequency of PB posts, being greedy I want as many as you want to give us, be that 3 or 5, it just needs to be sustainable so that PB keeps going into the future.....

It's funny you asked about how frequent should you post. Since, I thought though I could be mistaken, varied frequency. It doesn't bother me whatever you choose to do. I'm impressed that you manage to get so many out the door w. the speed you do.

BTW I was surprised that you're blond & possibly over 30 since, I always imagined you as a brunette, petite and very young maybe 28 -32.

5 days! Definitely! I look forward to your bits of news from Paris and your views on the ins and outs of the goings on around the city.I would not even mind 7 days, but that is not probably an option. Oh well.Cheers Merle

Whatever is best for you. I look forward to "Breakfast", but it must be very difficult to do 5 days a week. I wrote to Karen Wheeler after reading all her books, rec. by you. I buy a lot of the books you rec. They are wonderful. LOVE my painting of Laduree. Dorry

I would want my Paris Express to come every day, HOWEVER, if the author is stressed, over worked and can handle only 3 days a week, I would look forward to 3 days a week... take your joie when it comes....

Love the emails 5 days a week if you can keep it going. I look forward to it each morning. I have given the email to others in Zurich and South of France, they are both artists and I love your pieces about books etc. Read Vivian Swifts “Le Road Trip” and really enjoyed it. Love your watercolours.

I have for years read New York Social Diary by David Patrick Columbia. Whilst I love New York I am finding your site more fun. We have had many trips to the South of France and never tire of it.

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